U.S. Mission to the OSCE

HDIM: Closing Statement

21 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

U.S. Closing Statement at the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, September 10, 2018.

HDIM: Working Session 13 – Rights of Migrants (Part 2)

18 September, 2018 | Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 13: Rights of Migrants, Part 2

A migrant carries a baby as she disembarks from a ship in Sicily, Italy, July 22, 2015. (AP Photo)

HDIM: Working Session 12 – Rights of Migrants

18 September, 2018 | Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 12: Rights of Migrants

Oyub Titiyev, head of regional branch of Russian human rights group Memorial, attends a court hearing in Grozny, Russia, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

HDIM: Working Session 11 – Fundamental Freedoms (Part 1, continued)

17 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 11: Fundamental freedoms (Part 1, continued) including freedom of peaceful assembly and association, national human rights institutions and the role…

Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists hold portraits with the names of victims of Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea, Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

HDIM: Working Session 10 – Fundamental Freedoms (Part 1, continued)

17 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 10: Fundamental freedoms I (continued), Including freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, national human rights institutions and…

Activists outside the parliament in Rome on Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo)

HDIM: Working Session 9 – Tolerance and Non-Discrimination (Part 2), Including Roma and Sinti

14 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements, Tolerance and Non-discrimination

Statement at HDIM Working Session 9 - Tolerance and non-discrimination 2, Including Roma and Sinti Issues.

A man prays among gravestones at the memorial centre of Potocari near Srebrenica, 150 kms north east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

HDIM: Working Session 8 – Tolerance and Non-Discrimination 1 (Part 1, continued)

14 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 8: Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I (continued), Including: Rights of Persons Belonging to National Minorities, and Preventing Aggressive Nationalism, Racism and…

Andrew Craig Brunson, centre, an evangelical pastor from Black Mountain, North Carolina, who had been jailed in Turkey for more than one and a half years on terror and espionage charges, arrives at his house in Izmir, Turkey where he was put under house arrest as his trial continues, July 2018. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul, File)

HDIM: Working Session 7 – Fundamental Freedoms 1

13 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Working Session 7: Fundamental freedoms 1, including: Freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief.

People of different faiths wear the Jewish kippah during a demonstration against anti-Semitism, Erfurt, Germany, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

HDIM: Working Session 6 – Tolerance and Non-discrimination (Part 1)

13 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 6: Tolerance and non-discrimination Part 1, including combating anti-Semitism, combating intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, including against…

People hold up pink cardboard triangles and wave a rainbow flag during a gathering in support of the LGBT community in Chechnya. (Madrid, 2017. AP Photo)

HDIM: Working Session 5 – Rule of Law (Part 2)

12 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 5: Rule of Law II - Protection of human rights and fighting terrorism; Prevention of torture; Exchange of views on…

A gay rights activist stands with a rainbow flag, in front of journalists, during a protest in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

HDIM: Working Session 4 – Rule of Law (Part 1)

12 September, 2018 | Freedom of Expression, Media Freedom, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 4: Rule of law I, including - Right to a fair trial; Independence of the judiciary; Democratic law-making

Protesters hold copies of the Cumhuriyet newspaper with headlines in Turkish reading:

HDIM: Working Session 3 – Freedom of the Media

11 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Media Freedom, Statements

Statement at HDIM Working Session 3: Freedom of the Media (Part 2)

Media freedom badges distributed by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media before a session of the OSCE Permanent Council, Dec. 1, 2016. (USOSCE/Colin Peters)

HDIM: Working Session 2 – Freedom of the Media

11 September, 2018 | Media Freedom, Statements

HDIM Statement on Freedom of the Media as prepared for delivery by Ambassador Michael Kozak

HDIM: Working Session 1 – Democratic Institutions

11 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

U.S. Statement delivered at HDIM Working Session 1 - Democratic institutions, including democracy at the national, regional, and local levels, and democratic elections

Ambassador Michael Kozak delivers the U.S. opening statement at the 2018 OSCE HDIM. (USOSCE/Colin Peters)

HDIM: Opening Statement

10 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements, Ukraine Crisis

U.S. Opening Statement at the 2018 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, September 10, 2018.

USA at the 2018 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

10 September, 2018 | Human Rights, Statements

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesperson For Immediate Release MEDIA NOTE September 7, 2018 U.S. Delegation to the 2018 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation…